Quotes from Voltaire's Candide

Favorite quotes assembled from Voltaire's satrical novel, Candide.

The Nature of Our Being

Submitted by scotese on Mon, 2006-10-23 06:04

This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Voltaire

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Best of All Possible Worlds

Submitted by scotese on Fri, 2006-10-27 12:10

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Voltaire

Candide (translated by John Butt)

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